Author Archives: Andrew Roe

Among the Ash-Heaps and Millionaires Trimalchio in West Egg Trimalchio Gatsby Gold-Hatted Gatsby Fitzgerald’s editor, Max Perkins, always liked The Great Gatsby. But Fitzgerald himself vacillated on the title right up until the book’s publication. (I’m reading A. Scott Berg’s … Continue reading →

David Foster Wallace to his editor re working on The Pale King: he said that working on the novel was “like wrestling sheets of balsa wood in a high wind.” (Quoted in a recent TPK review in the New York … Continue reading →

THINK NOVEL SPLENDID

More random quotes from my five-year-old son Ethan (who won’t be five much longer)… “Everything you see is real. That’s the science term.” “You can only joke on Chinese New Year.” “What the heck is a parsnip?” “Daddy, every day … Continue reading →